Part III: Research from ACM-SIGCHI


Proceedings of CHI-related conferences are in the ACM Digital Library (the browsing section). Individual and institutional subscriptions are available.

Here I've listed articles from a recent five year span (94-98 inclusive) that interested me personally and/or that I hoped would be of interest to other digital artists. (Peer reviewed only, articles appear in the SIGCHI Conference Proceedings for the year given.) My goal: give a sense of the topics covered, and provide enough material to allow you to decide whether "looking at the research" is worth your time.

SIGCHI participation is international, multidisciplinary, self-selecting. Papers accepted are often intensely focused and fanatical about some aspect of HCI. (And that's before they respond to the review comments!)

Often I don't use the research the way it was intended, but it sparks ideas in my mind.




The reviewers are like pit bulls. At any rate I've never gotten a paper past them.

Many worthy papers are not included because they're thoroughly "useful" in a way that is not super helpful for artists. This is a very personal selection.